Walter de Lacy, lord of Weobley and Ewias Lacy, conducted military operations to defend and extend his Marcher territories in Gwent in the 1180s. The de Lacy family held extensive lands in both England and Ireland and used their resources to assert control over the troublesome borderland of Gwent. Welsh resistance in the hills above the Usk valley was ongoing throughout this period.
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